Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 314 g
Becoming Muslim in the West
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 314 g
ISBN: 978-1-5095-1935-4
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
There is widespread concern today about the “radicalization” of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism. But how do young Muslims growing up in the cities of the West really live?
This book takes us beyond the rhetoric and into the housing estates on the outskirts of Paris to meet Adama, Radouane, Hassan, Tarik, Marley, and a shadowy figure whose name suddenly and brutally became known to the world at the time of the Charlie Hebdo shootings: Amédy Coulibaly. Seeing Amédy through the eyes of close friends and other young Muslim men in the neighbourhoods where they grew up, Fabien Truong uncovers a network of competing loyalties and maps the road these youths take to resolve the conflicts they face: becoming Muslim. For these young men, Islam stands, often alone, as a resource, a gateway – as if it were the last route to “escape” without betrayal and to “fight” in a meaningful and noble way.
Becoming Muslim does not necessarily lead to the radicalized “other”. It is more like a long-distance race, a powerful reconversion of the self that allows for introspection and change. But it can also lead to a belligerent presentation of the self that transforms a dead-end into a call to arms.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
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Note to the Reader
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The call of the ground
Friday the 13th
Behind absurdity, the social world
The magic of "radicalization"
A bad religion for "bad seeds"?
Finding Allah at street-level
Chapter 1: Common histories
Making a home in public housing: a French history
"Boys will be boys"
Conflicting loyalties, recognition of debts
"A white fence-post in a dark forest"
Rebels without a cause, or a cause without rebels?
Chapter 2: On the margins of the city
Imprints of school
The incompleteness of le business
Common criminals
Masculine machines
Police, death, and hatred: a political trinity
Chapter 3: Reconversions
Being or becoming Muslim? The "community" illusion
The Koran: reading and sharing
In the here and now: getting better
Beyond the here and now: being the best
The value of reconversion and the reconversion of values
Chapter 4: War and Peace
Turning thirty: the verdict
Toward a sociology of inner peace
Kif-kif
Desires for Syria: going off to war, over there
"I am Amédy": at war, over here
Epilogue
Notes
Index
